Goings On: posted week of October, 14 2019
CONTENTS:
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John Giorno, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Martha Wilson, Arlene Rush, Linda Stein, FF Alumns, at Pen + Brush, Manhattan, opening Oct. 24
2. Martha Wilson, Federico Hewson, FF Alumns, at NYU, Manhattan, opening Oct. 25
3. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library, Manhattan, Oct. 16
4. Herb Perr, Sabrina Jones, Seth Tobocman, FF Alumns, at Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, Nov. 7
5. Aaron Osborne, FF Alumn, at 711 N La Cienega, West Hollywood, CA, Oct. 18-28
6. Roberta Allen, FF Alum, at Mana Contemporary now online, and more
7. Jim Costanzo, Raúl Zamudio, FF Alumns, at The Empty Circle Space, Brooklyn, thru Oct. 27
8. Deborah Castillo, FF Alumn, new publication
9. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at 215 W. 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 19-20
10. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 10 and more
11. Laura Hoptman, FF Alumn, at 192 Books, Manhattan, October 17, and more
12. Arlene Rush, FF Member, on 14th Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan, Oct. 18-20
13. Kimsooja, FF Alumn,at Traversées, Poitiers, France, thru Jan. 19, 2020
14. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at The Shed, Manhattan, thru March 22, 2020
15. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, Allentown, PA, opening Nov. 2
16. Jibz Cameron, Maya Ciarrocchi, Máiréad Delaney, Terry O’Reilly, FF Alumns, receive MacDowell Fellowships 2019
17. Priscilla Stadler, FF Alumn, at Union Square East, Manhattan, Oct. 19
18. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, receives Joe’s Pub Vanguard Award and Residency
19. Nora York, FF Alumn, now online at youtube.com
20. Christen Clifford, Lucy Sexton, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Oct. 27
21. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, October 19 and more
22. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Oct. 19
23. Miriam Schaer, FF Alumn, fall news
24. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, now online at maccaroneshop.net
25. Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, FF Alumns, in the New York Times, now online
26. Lawrence Graham-Brown, FF Alumn, at The Center, Manhattan, Oct. 19
27. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, Oct. 19
28. Edward Madrid Gómez, Jon Hendricks, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, in Hyperallergic, now online
29. Beth B., Lydia Lunch, FF Alumns, at IFP Center, Manhattan, Nov. 9
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John Giorno, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/obituaries/john-giorno-dead.html
Thank you.
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1. Martha Wilson, Arlene Rush, Linda Stein, FF Alumns, at Pen + Brush, Manhattan, opening Oct. 24
Overlap Life Tapestries: the warp – systemic marginalization, and the weft – intersecting identities, weave a tapestry of visibility and validation.
Exhibition Dates: October 24 – December 14, 2019
Location: Pen + Brush, 29 East 22nd Street, NYC
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 24, 6 – 8PM
Pen + Brush is pleased to present the third iteration of Overlap: Life Tapestries curated by Vida Sabbaghi. Intersectionality, the theory underpinning this exhibition, challenges the notion that a woman’s experience and body of work is determined solely by her gender. This 2019 exhibition with Pen + Brush brings together a group of self-identified women artists whose artistic practices are richly charged in their realization that discrimination is characterized and informed by national origin, race, social position, and historical forces. Vida Sabbaghi uses this intersectional approach to counter the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women artists. The artists in this exhibition, Carrie Alter, AM DeBrincat, Angela Fraleigh, Judy Gelles, Maren Hassinger, Michela Martello, Lacey McKinney, Renee Phillips, Arlene Rush, Jean Shin, Linda Stein, Shari Weschler, and Martha Wilson, are from different social and professional backgrounds and generations. They imaginatively recreate the tapestry of their lives through their art, while mapping the relationship between the personal and political.
Vida Sabbaghi, first curated Overlap: Life Tapestries at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, and later at Penn State’s HUB Robeson Gallery. Sabbaghi, a cultural producer, and leader on matters of equity, inclusion, and social justice, is the founder and executive director of COPE NYC.
About Pen + Brush
Pen + Brush, currently celebrating its 125th anniversary year, is a publicly supported not-for-profit fighting for gender equity in the arts. P+B provides a platform to showcase the work of female artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change in the marketplace. We encourage and mentor emerging professionals and aim to expose the stereotypes and misconceptions that perpetuate gender-based exclusion, lack of recognition and the devaluation of skill that is still experienced by women in the arts.
For further information please contact Dawn Delikat: dawn@penandbrush.org
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12pm-6pm
Special thanks to COPE NYC for their support of Vida Sabbaghi’s work on this exhibition. COPE NYC’s mission is to bridge communities through art and design. COPE NYC promotes social relations for all ages and abilities through community art projects, gallery and museum exhibits, conferences, discussion panels, and local and international Artists in Residence projects.
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2. Martha Wilson, Federico Hewson, FF Alumns, at NYU, Manhattan, opening Oct. 25
Art Alumni Show 2019
Curated by Martha Wilson
October 25 – November 9, 2019
Opening Reception, October 25th, 6-8pm
Curator Talk, October 25th, 6:30pm
Barney Building, Commons Gallery
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, 10003
Since the pharaohs of Egypt, sex and politics have had long association. Today, we remain fascinated by both-so I thought to select works that are explicitly sexual and/or political in their content. These works may reveal innermost secrets, or may take the wide world as their scope. Does making art change the world? Perhaps not, but if we don’t do anything, we will explode. Please enjoy pieces by the following NYU Department of Art and Art Professions Alumni:
Shelly Bahl, MA Studio Art 1995
Letizia Balzi, MA Art Education 2016
Rebekah Birkan, BFA 2014
Rachael Brannon, MA Art Education 2014
Rina AC Dweck, BS Studio Art 1998
Federico Hewson, MA Art Education 2016
Molly Lambe, BFA 2014
Zaq Landsberg, BFA 2007
Madeleine LeMieux, MA Arts Administration 2011
Kimberly Lin (with Roland Arnoldt), BFA 2016
Andy Šlemenda, MFA 2012
Julie Stopper, BFA 2014
Jacqueline Tse, BFA 2006
Magaly Vega, MA Art Education 2019
Amy Wenzel, MA Art Education 2011
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and art space director, who over the past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by the New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976 she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works.
Martha Wilson is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery in New York. She received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2013. She has received fellowships for performance art from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; Bessie and Obie awards for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression; a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts; a Richard Massey Foundation-White Box Arts and Humanities Award; a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women’s Caucus for Art; and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Art Alumni Shows are annual exhibitions to showcase the work of artists who graduated from the NYU Department of Art and Art Professions’ undergraduate and graduate programs. The 2018 inaugural exhibition was curated by Chrissie Illes, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through this exhibition we would like to celebrate, recognize and bring together our alumni community.
For subscriptions, un-subscriptions, queries and comments, please email mail@franklinfurnace.org
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3. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library, Manhattan, Oct. 16
ON WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2019 FROM 11AM – 12:30PM
GLOBAL ETHICS DAY
AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY / SCHWARZMAN BUILDING
THE ROSE READING ROOM / RIGHT WING
WE WILL BE HANDWRITING
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
THE PATIENT’S BILL OF RIGHTS
FREELANCERS RIGHTS
YOU AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE.
HANDWRITE YOUR CHOICE OF DOCUMENT.
PENS AND PAPER AND COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED.
MORGAN O’HARA AND HANDWRITERS OF THE CONSTITUTION
website: www.handwritingtheconstitution.com
contact: handwritingtheconstitution@gmail.com
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4. Herb Perr, Sabrina Jones, Seth Tobocman, FF Alumns, at Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, Nov. 7
“Hands Up, Herbie!” Book Launch Party
November 7, 2019, 7:00 PM
143 7th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join us to celebrate the launch of Joey Perr’s debut graphic novel, Hands Up, Herbie!
There will be a short slideshow reading and conversation between the author and Stefan Lorenzutti, and a toast to Herb with his favorite wine and seltzer “spritzah” (or whatever you prefer in your own glass).
“Hands Up, Herbie! is a brilliant work of comic art. In his debut graphic novel, Joey Perr brings us close-maybe a bit too close-to his father, Herb. Herbie is a man at the crossroads, who journeys from a violent beginning in the Jewish, working-class New York of the 1950s, through the SOHO art world of the 1970s, to a reckoning with social responsibility and family life. The story is at times terrifying, at other times uplifting, but always told simply, humbly, and with perfect economy. If you care about comics, or if you don’t care about comics, but you care about human beings, you should read this book.”
– Seth Tobocman, founding editor of World War 3 Illustrated, author of War In The Neighborhood
“With deft stylistic economy, Joey Perr unfolds his father Herb’s escape from a childhood of poverty, crime, and brutality on the outermost fringe of Brooklyn, to become an artist, activist, and educator in Greenwich Village. The journey spans four generations, from the author back to his Eastern European-born great-grandfather, examining the multigenerational scars of immigration. The cultural distance Herbie travels from Brooklyn to Manhattan is as profound as that traversed by his old-world grandfather. A highly accessible and lively read, Hands Up, Herbie! is a reflection on the tension between our indelible heritage and our potential for self-determination.” – Sabrina Jones, author of Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist’s Encounter with Margaret Sanger
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5. Aaron Osborne, FF Alumn, at 711 N La Cienega, West Hollywood, CA, Oct. 18-28
711 N La Cienega Blvd, West Hollywood
7 – 11PM
OCT 18 – 28
The St. Tammany Parish Major Arcana Deck An Exhibit/Reading of Artwork by Aaron Osborne During an eight month film project in Louisiana, Los Angeles artist and designer Aaron Osborne created a new major arcana tarot deck that is deeply of this particular moment in American history. Osborne draws upon the uneasy dynamics between the two different LAs: the strange and wonderful people, the clash of mindsets between coastal and rural, and the surprising commonalities in the space between. Using photography with locally Goodwill-thrifted cameras and the art of both physical and digital collage, Osborne seeks to explore these universal truths and find meaning within them.
For a limited two week run, the card artwork will be shown in large format, as well as read in card form by a tarot reader.
About the Artist:
Aaron Osborne is a designer and performance artist. An established figure in the Los Angeles performance scene throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s, Osborne was most well known for co-creating and producing the critically acclaimed performance art extravaganza Theatre Carnivale. Theatre Carnivale received the LA Arts Endowment Grant for Peter Pandemonium produced at LACE, and had a tremendously successful 3-year-run in various Los Angeles venues, consistently earning “Picks of the Week” from the LA Weekly. He also received an NEA Grant for his play Acid Whorehouse, produced for New York’s Franklin Furnace Theatre and Los Angeles’ Tamarind Theatre. Osborne also directed a series of infamous music videos for L7, Ethyl Meat Plow and Porno for Pyros (the bands hated the videos). Osborne was also one half of the performance art clown duo called Bolo and Gorgo, characters from the Charles Schneider Grand Guignol play Scream Clown Scream, performing at Ben is Dead and the OLIO theater. As a designer, Osborne is a dynamic Emmy-award-winning production designer of film, television, and theatre. Most recently he designed the sets for Looking for Alaska (Coming out on Hulu October 18), last year’s critically acclaimed Love, Simon, and the indie The True Adventures of Wolfboy. Other feature film credits include: Keanu with Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, The Good Lie starring Reese Witherspoon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang starring Robert Downey Jr., Another Day in Paradise, The Losers, I Am Sam, Sex Drive, Dumb and Dumber To, the George C. Wolfe film You’re Not You starring Hillary Swank, and both That’s My Boy and Grown Ups 2 with Adam Sandler. He worked with the Wayans Brothers on several of their projects, including Don’t Be a Menace in South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood and Dance Flick. In television, Aaron created the signature look for many acclaimed series, designing the pilots for Constantine, Community, Superstore, among others. In 2003, Aaron accepted the Emmy Award for Best Production Design for Without A Trace.
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6. Roberta Allen, FF Alum, at Mana Contemporary now online, and more
My prose piece, “Almost Invisible,” is on Mana Contemporary.
Please visit this link.
https://www.manacontemporary.com/editorial/almost-invisible/
Thank you.
Also, I am in the group show, “Igniting the Pendulum,” from the flatfiles,
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, through Oct. 27.
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7. Jim Costanzo, Raúl Zamudio, FF Alumns, at The Empty Circle Space, Brooklyn, thru Oct. 27
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio Presenta:
Aaron Burr Society/Jim Costanzo: A Brief History of Class Warfare
Opening Saturday October 5th from 6 to 8 pm
performance by the artist and cellist Jacob Cohen
The Empty Circle Space
499 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
For those who have eyes and intoxicated with the delirium- Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
A Brief History of Class Warfare is organized around two public artworks created before the formation of the Aaron Burr Society. The first was a 1992 REPOhistory sign placed on WallStreet; the second was a series of anti-war/human-rights billboards from the 2003 billboard series that was produced with White Box and funded by the Puffin Foundation.
“Jim Costanzo’s [REPOhistory] sign, Advantages of an Unregulated Market Economy, showed a stockbroker falling from a height as a crowd of outstretched arms attempted to catch him. Of all the signs, this one articulated the most direct criticism of contemporary capitalism, anticipating the kind of rhetoric and slogans that would be used by Occupy Wall Street some twenty years later-indeed, Costanzo went on to be involved in OWS.”*
Though the other artworks were not designed for the public sphere, they are similar in that they can also be read as Steppenwolf’s signs for “those who have eyes”. The exhibition includes photographs, videos, letterpress prints, and artifacts created for the Aaron Burr Society. One is a whiskey still and bottle from the Society’s 2nd Whiskey Rebellion. The other works consists of flags woven from the stamped paper currencies of the U.S, Mexico, and the Northern Triangle nations of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. The text of the stamped currency includes Free Money, Slave of Wall Street and Common Good/Commonwealth, which are translated into multiple languages.
The announcement photograph is from Costanzo’s book, wall street in black& white:fotos & text of an occupier, and is of the George Washington statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street.
*Mark Donnelly, Can Counter Histories Disturb The Present? Repohistory’s Street Signs Projects, 1992-1999, St Mary’s University Press, 2018
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8. Deborah Castillo, FF Alumn, new publication
Deborah Castillo: Radical Disobedience
This edited volume compiles, for the first time, critical perspectives on the work of Venezuelan performance artist Deborah Castillo. Edited by Irina Troconis and Alejandro Castro, and drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cultural studies, political theory, and performance theory, the book examines the different forms of radical disobedience that materialize as Castillo engages with questions of power, authority, the body, and the State, against the backdrop of Venezuela’s current crisis and the failures of the Bolivarian Revolution. Taken as a whole, this volume not only illuminates the different operations at play in the work of one of Venezuela’s most prominent performance artists, but it also gives insight into the dynamics of political authority as it emerges amidst a global scenario dominated by populisms, polarization, and new forms of social oppression and subjugation.
The book includes texts by Irina Troconis, Alejandro Castro, Sara Garzón, Rebeca Pineda Burgos, Cecilia Rodriguez Lehmann, and Diana Taylor.
radicaldisobedience.tome.press
About the Editors
Irina Troconis is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Romance Studies Department at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the politics and practices of memory in contemporary Latin America, the relationship between performance and populism, and the field of digital humanities. She is currently working on her book manuscript, titled “Spectral Remains: Memory, Magic and the State in the Afterglow of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution.”
Alejandro Castro (Caracas, 1986) is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at New York University. He received a B.A. in Arts from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and an M.A. in Latin American Literature from Universidad Simón Bolivar. In Venezuela, he was a university lecturer in aesthetics, literature, and psychology at the Escuela de Artes of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and later he taught literary theory at the Escuela de Letras of the same university. He has published two books of poems: No es por vicio ni por fornicio: Uranismo y otras parafilias, which won the 2010 prize of the Monte Avila Publishing House for unpublished authors, and El lejano oeste, which was awarded the prize for the book of the year 2014 from the Venezuelan Bookstore Association.
About the Artist
Deborah Castillo is a Venezuela-born, Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist. She holds an MFA and BFA from Armando Reverón Higher Education School of Fine Arts Caracas, Venezuela. Deborah has been granted numerous awards and residencies including NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, (2015), NYC, The Banff Center. Artist in Residence Program in Visual Arts (2015) Canada, Atlantic Center for the Arts (2014), Florida and London Print Studio, (2007) UK as well as “Premio Armando Reveron”; AVAP in the “Young Artist Category” (2013), “XI Salón Eugenio Mendoza” Award, Sala Mendoza, (2003); VI Salón CANTV, Jóvenes con FIA” Award, (2003) Caracas, Venezuela and more. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Arts and Design, NYC. New Museum, NYC,USA. Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico city, MX. Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico city, MX.Escuela de Bellas Artes, Bolivian Biennial SIART, Bolivia. UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. ICA, London, UK. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, USA. Smack Mellon, NYC, USA. Hemispheric Institute, NYC, USA, and among others.
About HemiPress
HemiPress is the Hemispheric Institute’s digital publication imprint, created to house and centralize our diverse publication initiatives. Using a variety of customized open-source digital humanities platforms, HemiPress includes the Gesture short works series-which includes the Duke U.P./HemiPress co-publications–stand-alone essays, and the Institute’s peer-reviewed journal emisférica, alongside interviews, Cuadernos, ArtWorks, Course Dossiers, and other online teaching resources. It also provides state-of-the-art multilingual publication capacities as well as immersive formats for capturing the “live” of performance and connecting communities of readers across the Americas.
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9. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at 215 W. 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 19-20
Beating the Odds
a 32 minute street action
October 19 and 20, 2019, at 12:00 noon
215 West 14th Street (btwn 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York, NY
LuLu LoLo, curator of Art in Odd Places, (AiOP) 2019: INVISIBLE has invited me to do something on 14th Street. After tracing in chalk several human silhouettes on the sidewalk, wearing a traditional Plague Doctor mask made in Venice, I shall hop around them in a kind of ritualistic dance while beating them with a baseball bat. This action, like most of my work, while clearly defined is also ambiguous. We are plagued by a flood of ills in our society. Title: the word odds has odd meanings: the odds are a game of chance but you and I are odd to whoever sees us as different. The different is at best ignored, but in fact is often persecuted. And I am invited to act in an ‘odd place’.
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10. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, at Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 10 and more
Club Foot Modern Machines @ Victoria Theater on November 10
These shows are a incredible! It is a gift to work with such a talented crew.
I am doing “special effects and soundscapes with my machine philharmonic, all via a score written by the incomparable Richard Marriott.
We will be performing only Sunday, November 10
On November 10, the historic Victoria Theater at 16th and Capp Streets in San Francisco’s Mission District will host an evening of Club Foot Modern Machines, featuring composer and founder Richard Marriott (winds), Gino Robair (percussion and electronics), Alisa Rose (violin), Kymry Esainko (keyboards), Beth Custer (clarinets), Will Bernard (electric guitar), Chris Grady (trumpet), Matt Heckert (machines), and Kal Spelletich (machines) for the complete 156-minute version of Fritz Lang’s 1926 masterpiece, Metropolis at 7:00.
The program will open at 5:30 with “Moving Silently” a collection of international short videos curated by Veronica Shimanovskaya, and accompanied by the Modern Machines.
Discounted “Early Bird” Tickets are available for $15 until October 15 at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4365397
Hope to see you at one or both of these events!
https://youtu.be/oNOPBgsqrAI
Kal
OH!
https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/artist-dialogue-an-evening-with-spelletich-friends%C2%A0
There is a Catalog form the St. Mary’s exhibit on me with and ISBN number.
How heck did this happen?
I would like to thank the universe for letting me exist at this time in this place and in this body, so I am able do my life’s work.
These special people in my orbit deserve extra special thanks…..
Mary Muszynski, Catharine Clark, Robin Bernhard, Chris Johanson, Martha Wilson, Kay Miller, Emory Douglas, Tanya Zimbardo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Les Blank, April Bojorquez, Jack Hanley, Matt Heckert, John Cord, Anuradha Vikram, Jay Krieger, all of my room mates I tortured making my work, Steven Bernard Jones, my teachers, Tanya Milosevich, Jonathan Foote, Mykel Diaz, Mitch Altman, Theremin Barney, Mark Pauline and S.R.L. Saint Mary’s University, Catharine Clark, and everyone I owe a thanks to and forgot and are going….Where’s my name??
And I still stand on the shoulders of Giants.
Kal
http://kaltek.wordpress.com/http://kaltek.org/
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11. Laura Hoptman, FF Alumn, at 192 Books, Manhattan, October 17
192 Books 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street 212-255-4022
Thursday, October 17th, 7 PM
Eric Karpeles in conversation with Laura Hoptman: a celebration of the life and work of Józef Czapski.
This stunning monograph, a long-overdue critical appraisal of Polish artist Joézef Czapski arrives at a moment when the artist’s legacy is gaining new recognition. Within these pages, author Eric Karpeles conveys how making art was so enmeshed with Czapski’s way of seeing and being in the world that it was second nature. Given that he lived into his ninety-seventh year, it’s no surprise that the artist has works dating from every decade of the twentieth century but the first. As witness to the tumultuous events of that century, he found in painting “a refuge and a salvation.”
Prolific as a painter, he was equally disciplined in recording the events of his life in pencil, ink, and watercolor in his journals. At a time when abstract art tended to dominate aesthetic discourse, he preferred to observe the world around him, to portray people going about their daily business. Some of his most compelling works depict theatergoers and art lovers doing what they do best-looking.
Eric Karpeles is a painter as well as writer and translator. He is the author of Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time, and translated Josef Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp. He is a fellow of the Czeslaw Milosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.
Laura Hoptman has been a curator of contemporary art and a leading participant in the international art conversation for three decades. She comes to the Drawing Center after eight years as a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, an institution where she also began her career in the 1990s as a curator with a specialty in drawing. Among the dozens of exhibitions that Hoptman has curated include Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, a landmark exhibition of contemporary figurative drawing at MoMA; retrospectives of the work of Yayoi Kusama, Isa Genzken, Henry Taylor, Bruce Conner, and Elizabeth Peyton, and the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
Józef Czapski (1896-1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life.
Copyright (c) 2019 192 Books, All rights reserved.
192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
and
please visit this link to a New Yorker review of the current Drawing Center exhibition:
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/spotlight-the-pencil-is-a-key
thank you.
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12. Arlene Rush, FF Member, on 14th Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan, Oct. 18-20
Art in Odd Places 2019: INVISIBLE curated by LuLu LoLo, along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River, will present artists sixty years old+ along with various forms of intergenerational collaborations.
Come and bring your rejection letters in
exchange for an Evidence of Being silicone bracelet
& transform the negative experience of rejection into
a shared experience; connecting people and
helping us not feel alone in this process.
October 18-20th
Friday 3:30-8:00, Sat 12:00-6:00,
Sunday 12-6:00
Location: SE corner of 14th St and 7th Ave outside the
Chase Bank
“Evidence of Being” is an interactive installation using existing rejection letters from Rush’s 30 plus year career. Letters that she has accumulated throughout her career are posted outside of a phone booth, and people are invited to add their own rejection letters to the installation. Speakers play a series of recorded narrative sentences of typical rejection letters from galleries, curators, grants, etc.
All participants will receive a silicone wristband with written Evidence of Being inscribed. Mass mailings of rejections, in particular, make one feel invisible. Rush intends is to transform the negative experience of rejection into a shared experience, connecting people and helping us not feel alone in this process.
Location: SE corner of 14th St and 7th Ave
Copyright (c) 2019 Arlene Rush, All rights reserved.
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13. Kimsooja, FF Alumn,at Traversées, Poitiers, France, thru Jan. 19, 2020
Traversées \ Kimsooja
October 12, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Poitiers, France
Artistic Direction: Emma Lavigne and Emmanuelle de Montgazon
Kimsooja will present one of her largest and most ambitious projects to-date with a brand new contemporary international biennale – Traversées – lead by two artistic directors, Emma Lavigne and Emmanuelle de Montgazon. Placing Poitiers on the international art map, this is a new approach, a city-wide invitation offered to one artist.
Kimsooja presents more than ten large scale site-specific installations including Archive of Mind, To Breathe, Bottari 1999-2019, four films of her series Thread Routes including a new commissioned chapter Thread Routes Vl, as well as four performance videos including A Needle Woman, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, and Bottari Truck – Migrateurs. As part of the project, Kimsooja has invited some fifteen artists, to include Subodh Gupta, Tadashi Kawamata, Lee Mingwei, Stephen Vitiello, Thomas Ferrand, Jung Marie, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Min Tanaka, amongst others, to observe the city and to share their own perspectives.
“To symbolically hand over the keys of Poitiers to Kimsooja is to accept that the city’s memories will be transformed into a space in which to imagine the future. But it is also to offer the artist the opportunity to re-frame her work, to imbed it in a new time and space, that of a city steeped in history” – E.L and E.dM
Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2019. Installation view at the Tour Maubergeon. Courtesy Ville de Poitiers, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, and Kimsooja Studio. (c)Yann Gachet
In the majestic Palace of the dukes of Aquitaine, a center of spirituality and contemporary culture, Kimsooja’s Archive of Mind is conceived of as an axis, as a starting point of crossing the city. This piece is based on the very principles of co-existence and harmony that have inspired her work for over thirty five years.
Kimsooja disperses space using light diffraction and mirrors, in the different variations of her work To Breathe, transforming historical sites such as the Tour Maubergeon or the cloister at the Chapelle des Augustins into a sensory experience and a space of heterotopia, as defined by the native of Poitiers philosopher Michel Foucault.
For an artist in a state of perpetual motion like Kimsooja, Poitiers also takes on the role of a place of refuge, somewhere to unpack her bottari (a Korean bundle). Facing the imposing cathedral of Saint Pierre, Bottari 1999-2019 is a new major work of the exhibition. The shipping container painted using Obangseak colors, representing the cardinal directions, and filled with the artist’s personal belongings, accumulated in her New York apartment over twenty years. Kimsooja wraps her belongings in a container, and transports them from one continent to another, a metaphor for her perpetual nomadic Bottari.
Co-produced by the City of Poitiers, the artist premieres a new commission, the sixth chapter of Thread Routes, filmed in Morocco this year, following chapters in Peru, Europe, India, China, and North America. The film series explores various textile-related practices, which Kimsooja considers as a “visual poem” or form of “visual anthropology.”
At the Chapelle Saint-Louis sits a truck filled with bottaris, representative of different populations in France, and carrying within them the memories of lives and absences. In the performance video Bottari Truck-Migrateurs, Kimsooja traverses the streets from Vitry-sur-Seine to the Eglise Saint Bernard, Paris, where the struggle of undocumented migrants began in 1996. During this symbolic journey, her body carries with it the permanent instability of the human condition. The artist passes though places that have been marked by the history of immigration in France.
Installed for the first time since 2002, in the centre of the sacristy of the Chapelle Saint-Louis, Planted Names is a homage to the enslaved people that worked at the Drayton Hall Plantation in South Carolina. Their names, woven in white thread, appear at the surface of two black carpets, a symbol of the weavers’ arduous work and of the enslaved peoples’ plantation labour. Open to the public especially for the event, the sacristy becomes a new memorial to those who were deprived of their freedom.
These artworks enters in resonance with another site-specific installation Solarescope, where Kimsooja wraps the façade of the Eglise Notre-Dame la Grande, projecting colours endowed with protective functions. Solarescope sheathes the building in a new skin, and invites spectators to a constant oscillation between contemplation of the historic building and revelation of its beauty.
“These “traversées” will open our eyes to new paths and will write a new chapter in this rich story, one that will not only be recounted, but lived and shared, turning local residents and visitors alike into wanderers, following the paths left by the artists, routes that fork and multiply into a disorienting infinity.” E.L and E.dM
Emma Lavigne is a curator and art historian, the former director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and now the President of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Emmanuelle de Montgazon is an independent international curator, based in France and Japan.
Traversées was initiated by Alain Claeys, Mayor of the City of Poitiers and Henri Loyrette, former director of the Louvre and Orsay museums.
Sammy Baloji/, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Belgium / Myriam Boucher, Canada / Compagnie l’Homme Debout, France / Ensemble 0, France / Thomas Ferrand, France / Subodh Gupta, India / Jung Marie, South Korea / Lenio Kaklea, France / Greece / Tadashi Kawamata, Japan / France / Kimsooja, South Korea / USA / France / Lee Mingwei, Taiwan / France / Min Tanaka, Japan / Tomoko Sauvage, France / Japan / Achilleas Souras, United Kingdom / Greece / Stephen Vitiello, USA / Rirkrit Tiravanija, Germany, Thailand/ and more
SITES IN POITIERS
Palais des ducs d’Aquitaine / TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers / Maison de l’Architecture / Chapelle Saint-Louis / Atelier Canopé – Chapelle des Augustins / Eglise Notre-Dame-la-Grande / Halles du Marché Notre-Dame / Rue de la Cathédrale / Place de la Cathédrale / Baptistère Saint-Jean / Musée Sainte-Croix / Eglise Sainte-Radegonde / Confort Moderne and more
KIMSOOJA EXHIBITED ARTWORKS
Archive of Mind, 2019 / To Breathe, 2019 (Tour Maubergeon) / Thread Routes VI, 2019 / A Homeless Woman – Delhi, 2000 / Bottari 1999-2019, 2019 / Bottari Truck-Migrateurs, 2007 / To Breathe, 2019 / A Needle Woman-Kitakyushu, 1999 / To Breathe – The Flags, 2018-2019 / Thread Routes I, II, III, 2010, 2011, 2012 / To Breathe, 2019 (Sainte Radegonde Church)/ A Needle Woman, 2009 / Mandala : Zone of Zero, 2004-2010 / Encounter : A Mirror Woman, 2017/ To Breathe, 2019 (Confort Moderne) / Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2007 / Planted Names, 2002 / Bottari, 2017 / Solarescope, 2019 (Eglise Notre-Dame la Grande)
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14. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at The Shed, Manhattan, thru March 22, 2020
The Shed Presents The Most Comprehensive Retrospective Exhibition to Date of The Pioneering Work of Agnes Denes
Spanning Denes’s Wide-Ranging 50-Year Career at the Forefront of Conceptual and Environmental Art
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates On View October 9, 2019 – March 22, 2020
This fall, The Shed will present the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition to date of the work of Agnes Denes (b. 1931), a leading figure in Conceptual and environmental art. On view October 9, 2019 to March 22, 2020 across both of The Shed’s expansive galleries, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates will bring together more than 150 works in a broad range of media spanning Denes’s 50-year career, including three new works commissioned by The Shed.
Denes rose to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s, creating work influenced by science, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, ecology, and psychology to analyze, document, and ultimately aid humanity. Her theories about climate change and life in an ever-changing, technologically-driven world demonstrate a deeply prescient understanding of society today.
“A pioneer and a polymath, Agnes Denes is long overdue for a comprehensive exhibition,” said Alex Poots, Artistic Director and CEO of The Shed. “Denes’s practice epitomizes our vision at The Shed – a career spanning many mediums, interdisciplinary modes of thinking, experimentation, and pushing boundaries – and we are so proud to bring her visionary work together for the first time in New York City, her longtime home.”
Highlights of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates include selections from her drawing series, which began in the late 1960s: the “Philosophical Drawings,” “Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections,” and “Pyramid Series”; the eco-conscious sculpture Pyramids of Conscience (2005); documentation of her realized monumental public works, including the iconic Wheatfield-A Confrontation (1982), which transformed the land that became New York’s Battery Park City into a two-acre wheat field; and a presentation of unrealized works, including three models commissioned by The Shed that expound and expand on ideas that have been ever-present throughout Denes’career. Organized by Emma Enderby, The Shed’s Senior Curator, with Adeze Wilford, Curatorial Assistant, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
“Agnes Denes was ahead of her time. She saw the coming of an ecological crisis, and in the 1960s started working with land, mathematics, philosophy, language, and technology to consider and offer solutions to the challenges facing humanity,” said Emma Enderby, Senior Curator of The Shed. “She alerted us to humanitarian and environmental issues through beautiful, sensual visual forms combined with a deeply researched and scholarly philosophy. Her vision was radical, and in retrospect, terrifyingly prophetic.”
“Agnes Denes not only anticipated the man-made destruction of natural habitats at a moment when few people were paying attention, but much of her work features solutions to ecological crises that we are now facing,” said Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Shed’s senior program advisor. “Her preparatory drawings and plans are amazingly detailed and aesthetically beautiful. A Model for A Forest for New York is one such unrealized monumental project that this exhibition helps to advance to the next level, to help further a visionary idea that she has been developing throughout her career.”
Exhibition Highlights
The exhibition is organized into the main groupings of Denes’ work throughout her career: drawings, sculptures, monumental public works, and unrealized projects. Denes envisioned the “Philosophical Drawings”
as ways to “visualize knowledge… [which] wasn’t easy, because I tried to visualize things that have never been visualized before, like logic, mathematics, thinking processes, and so on.” Examples on view include Dialectic Triangulation: A Visual Philosophy (1983), which analyzes and visualizes humanity’s achievements, paradoxes, and
follies in a highly complex blueprint, including factors like ethics, logic, emotions and passions, and astronomy. In her “Map Projections,” Denes represents the Earth as a technical sketch, maintaining the planet’s dimensions but reforming it as a cube, a snail, and a hot dog, among other shapes.
Denes'”Pyramid Series” uses beautifully detailed drawings employing mathematical theory to create shifting pyramid forms that address environmental and philosophical concepts. The series also includes a group of
drawings under the title “Future City,” jewel-like works that are actual plans for future cities to cope with impending ecological stress, including space stations and a floating city that supports life on or under water. Denes explores the pyramid form in sculpture as well, as in the four-part Pyramids of Conscience (2005): three Plexiglas pyramids are filled with clean water, polluted water, or crude oil, and the fourth has a mirrored surface to reflect the viewer and their complicity in environmental issues.
Denes is best known for her monumental public artwork Wheatfield-A Confrontation (1982), which featured a two- acre wheat field planted on the land which became New York’s Battery Park City a comment on mismanagement of world hunger, food, waste, energy, commerce, trade, land use, and economics. Photographs and other documentation of Wheatfield will be on view, as well as of other public works such as Rice/Tree/Burial, thought to be the first-ever site-specific work with ecological concerns, in which Denes planted rice, chained trees, and buried haiku poetry in Sullivan County, NY (1968) and later at Artpark, Lewiston (1977 – 79); and Tree Mountain – A Living Time Capsule-11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years (1992 – 96), a planting of 11,000 trees in Finland in the pattern of the golden ratio.
The exhibition will debut three new Shed commissions that feature ideas and themes that Denes has explored throughout her career. A Forest for New York (2014 – ongoing) is a proposal by Denes to turn a 120-acre landfill in Far Rockaway, Queens, into a park for all New Yorkers, planting 100,000 trees to help address respiratory health issues in the area and turn a barren space into a thriving forest. The Shed commissioned a model of the park to illustrate Denes’continued cultural and environmental vision. Model for Probability Pyramid-Study for Crystal Pyramid (2019) is a variation of a 1976 drawing of a monumental, theoretical superstructure that would measure 50 by 50 meters and be constructed from 160,000 glass blocks. For this exhibition, The Shed commissioned a variation of the pyramid that measures 22.5 feet long by 30 feet wide by 17 feet high, comprised of 5,300 3-D-printed bricks, and is illuminated from within.
The Shed also commissioned Model for Teardrop-Monument to Being Earthbound (2019), a working proposal for a future monument featuring a 3-D printed teardrop floating above its base, kept in place by a magnetic field and glowing like a candle, as Denes proposed in her original 1984 drawing.
A scholarly publication will accompany the exhibition, edited by Emma Enderby and featuring a conversation between Agnes Denes and Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as essays by Enderby, Giampaolo Bianconi, Lynn
Gamwell, Renee Gladman, Caroline A. Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Timothy Morton, and Klaus Ottmann.
About Agnes Denes
Agnes Denes was born in Budapest, raised in Sweden, and educated throughout the United States. She has participated in more than 600 exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally. Her solo shows have been presented at venues including Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1979) and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1974), among retrospective surveys at Firstsite, Colchester, United Kingdom (2013); The Living Pyramid, Socrates Sculpture Park (2015); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2008); Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (2003); and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1992).
Denes’s work has also been featured in Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965 – 2018, The
Whitney Museum of American Art (2018); Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959 – 1989, The Museum of Modern Art (2017); documenta 14, Kassel (2017); SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas – Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe (2014); Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph: 1964-1977, Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum (2012); Erre: variations labyrinthiques, Centre Pompidou-Metz (2011 – 12); Systems, Actions & Processes: 1965 – 1975, PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires (2011); 38th Venice Biennale (1978); documenta 6, Kassel (1977); and the 2nd Biennale of Sydney (1976). Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and 28 other major art institutions worldwide.
Denes has completed public and private commissions in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East, and has received numerous honors and awards including four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, four grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the DAAD Fellowship (1978), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (1985), the prestigious Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT (1990), the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1998), the Jill Watson Award for Transdisciplinary Achievement in the Arts from Carnegie Mellon University (1999), the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007), and the Ambassador’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy (2008) from the American Embassy in Hungary. Denes received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015.
About The Shed
Located on Manhattan’s west side, where the High Line meets Hudson Yards, The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. From hip hop to classical music, painting and sculpture to literature, film to theater and dance, The Shed brings together leading and emerging artists and thinkers from all disciplines under one roof. The building – a remarkable movable structure designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect-physically transforms to support artists’ most ambitious ideas. Committed to nurturing artistic invention and bringing creative experiences to the broadest possible audiences, The Shed, led by Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots, is a
21st-century space of and for New York City.
For more information, please contact:
Sommer Hixson
Director of Communications
(646) 876-6933
sommer.hixson@theshed.org
Christina Riley
Publicist
(646) 876-6865
christina.riley@theshed.org
Amanda Domizio
Polskin Arts & Communications Counselors
(212) 583-2798
amanda.domizio@finnpartners.com
mailto:amanda.domizio@finnpartners.com
545 West 30th Street
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, NY 10001
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15. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, Allentown, PA, opening Nov. 2
“PRIDE = POWER”
Curated by Deborah Rabinsky
The Fine Art Galleries at
Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
522 West Maple Street at Bayard Rustin Way
Allentown, PA
www.bradburysullivancenter.org/prideequalspower
The Fine Art Galleries at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center present Pride = Power, recent works by Philadelphia artist Gabriel Martinez, on display from November 2-December 30, 2019, with a brunch and artist reception on November 2nd from 10am to noon.
Martinez’ works recreate activist posters, slogans, and symbols onto sanded denim. This exhibit, Pride = Power, honors the activist legacy of the queer movement throughout recent history and, at this time of liminality where many rights have been secured but some are under threat by the current Federal administration, this exhibit is an important reminder that the LGBT community has always fought to secure and preserve the rights we have.
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16. Jibz Cameron, Maya Ciarrocchi, Máiréad Delaney, Terry O’Reilly, FF Alumns, receive MacDowell Fellowships 2019
Please visit this link:
thank you.
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17. Priscilla Stadler, FF Alumn, at Union Square East, Manhattan, Oct. 19
Dear All,
Ever wonder why NYC has so much real estate development? What happened with Amazon’s plan to move in? Maybe you want to know why rents are so damn high? Or why you should care what ULURP means?
ORD [The Oracle of Real Estate Development] has answers.
WHEN: Saturday, October 19th, from 10 – 1 (with Oracle Poem Performance at 12:45), at 14th Street and Union Square East, across the street from the park.
This year’s Oracle will appear to answer your questions on real estate topics including zoning, affordable rents (ha!), studio space, displacement, infrastucture, speculation, property values, etc.
A team of ORD Mediums will help channel your answer: Patricia Dahlman, Joey Hersh, Julia Justo, Katya Khan, Terry Blanchard, Bridget Bartolini, and Priscilla Stadler.
This iteration of ORD is part of Art in Odd Places 2019: INVISIBLE curated by LuLu LoLo.
Curatorial Manager: Anne-Marie Walsh. Curatorial Assistants: Katrina D. Jeffries, Savannah Pagán Fitzpatrick, and Furusho von Puttkammer. Promenade of Visual Flâneurs/Flâneuse Coordinator Valborg Fletre Linn. artinoddplaces.org
Hope to see you there.
Priscilla
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18. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, receives Joe’s Pub Vanguard Award and Residency
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/arts/music/laurie-anderson-vanguard-joes-pub.html
thank you.
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19. Nora York, FF Alumn, now online at youtube.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cZOyECtsx4
thank you.
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20. Christen Clifford, Lucy Sexton, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, Oct. 27
Sundays on Broadway and guest curator Adrienne Truscott present an evening of performance by Mike Albo, Christen Clifford, and Magda San Millan.
Mike Albo will present current and in progress work that addresses our obsessions and anxieties of the moment.
Christen Clifford (“Provocative, humorous and potent”- Hyperallergic) presents an excerpt from Cancer: A Love Story, her first solo show in ten years. Directed by Lucy Sexton.
Magda San Millan presents The Cock Painter, a solo-show combining stand-up comedy, dream analysis, the studio visit format, and psychoanalysis to elaborate on human stench, sexuality, and sadness.
For more information, please visit www.cathyweis.org/calendar
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
All events begin at 6:00 pm – doors open at 5:45 pm.
No reservations. No late seating.
$10 suggested contribution.
Keep in mind, this is a small space. Please arrive on time out of courtesy to the artists.
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21. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, October 19 and more
Interdisciplinary artist, curator and cultural producer, Hector Canonge presents the second program for the recently launched initiative IGNITION. The Live Art program was launched this past September with the participation of local, national and international artists. IGNITION is a platform created to foster the exploration, examination, experimentation, and presentation of performative narratives in contemporary art. The monthly program will feature live presentations, discussions, and workshops to encourage the development of various modalities of somatic expression. IGNITION will further contribute to a broader understanding of corporeal manifestations in Live Art and its many manifestations.
More information:
https://www.facebook.com/ignitionliveart/?modal=admin_todo_tour
and
Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, guest artist will present in Art In Odd Places, GROOVINK, in collaboration with Veronica Peña, FF Alumn, and the participation of Lorin Rosen and Nobuho Nagasawa, Oct. 18, 7 PM, Oct. 19, 5 PM.
GROOVINK is a site-specific, participatory performance that incorporates corporal movement and sound to explore notions of aging and creativity. An allegory to the transformation of the body and the passage of time, GROOVINK (groove + ink) makes reference to the physical marks / scars / grooves that aging leaves on a person’s body. The performance develops in 20 minutes inviting the public to make marks on the artists’ bodies followed by a sequence of actions where the artists transform their appearance into aging entities. The playful yet evocative work represents, on the one hand, the inclement passage of time, and on the other, the vitality, strength, and life experience found in older generations of creative people. GROOVINK treats the aging body as a canvas for vitality, inner strength, and constant adaptation.
More information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/467558947182238/
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22. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Oct. 19
Dixon Place presents
CAROUSEL
Comics Performances and Picture Shows, hosted by R. Sikoryak.
Live readings and projections of graphic novels, cartoons,
and other visual art, plus live music and drawing.
Free admission!
Featuring
Emily Flake
Jeff Lewonczyk
Jason Little
Lale Westvind
Music by Jascha Hoffman
Live drawing by R. Sikoryak
Plus voices by Pete Boisvert, Hope Cartelli, and Rebecca Comtois
Saturday, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC
In the Lounge
Free admission
Info: http://dixonplace.org
http://carouselslideshow.com
BIOS:
Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and performer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work appears regularly in the New Yorker, as well as the Nib, MAD, and other fine (or fine-ish) publications. She is the author and illustrator of Mama Tried: Dispatches From the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting, a book of cartoons and essays about parenthood. She co-hosts a quarterly parenting-themed comedy show with NPR host Ophira Eisenberg; the title of the show is not printable in a family publication, but rhymes with Mittshow.
Jascha Hoffman is a singer and songwriter in Brooklyn. With a lyrical voice that has been compared to Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, Jascha writes intimate songs packed with “language that lets us see humans at their most human.” His 2015 album The Afterneath was inspired by the obituaries section of the New York Times, for which he once wrote, and praised in American Songwriter as “a remarkable album and great achievement.” At Carousel he will be presenting an “open song”, a wholly improvised composition that will be accompanied by a live sketch by R. Sikoryak.
Jeff Lewonczyk is a recovering playwright and aspiring cartoonist who lives in Brooklyn. His children’s holiday comedy Bethlehem or Bust has been performed in schools across the country, and his illustrated travelogue “I Went To India, and All I Brought You Were These Lousy Cartoons” has been featured in publications ranging from Buzzfeed to the Hindustan Times. Visit his website at jeffisaweso.me.
Jason Little is the author of The Vagina and Borb. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts.
Lale Westvind is the author of Grip, Hot Dog Beach and over a dozen other comic books. Her energetic depictions of movement and sci-fi possibilities have been featured in Best American Comics, Kramers Ergot and Lagon Revue.
R. Sikoryak is the cartoonist responsible for Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (published by Drawn & Quarterly). He’s drawn for The New Yorker, The Nation, MAD, and The Nib. He’s hosted Carousel since 1997.
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23. Miriam Schaer, FF Alumn, fall news
MIRIAM SCHAER STUDIO NEWS
FALL 2019
Fall is Full of Exciting Projects
Art in Odd Places 2019: INVISIBLE
The In(visibil)ity Project: Replacement Parts-A Passport to Wellness invites people to consider their lives – what needs to be replaced, what has been replaced, what is irreplaceable – and to create personal Passports to Wellness. Participants will insert into handmade Passports images of people, objects, body parts and animals to fill the voids of their absence. On completion, participants will take their Passports with them as remembrances.
I will be on the south side of West 14 Street, between 7th & 8th Avenues, near the Mt. Sinai Doctors clinic on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2-5 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 18, 5-8 p.m.; and Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 19 & 20, 2-5 p.m. AIOP 2019: Invisible is curated by LuLu LoLo. Please stop by!
Shown above: Making Passports to Wellness. Photo by Jose Araújo
I will be showing artist books, including A Conversation with My Mother and Shulamith Firestone and Cinderella Ever After (seen above), with Central Booking Art Space at the Editions & Artist Book Fair (E/AB) Oct. 24-27, at The Caldwell Factory, 547 W. 26 Street. I will be at the preview, Thursday evening, Oct. 24, and Saturday morning, Oct. 26.
Admission to the fair is free Friday-Sunday, Oct. 25-27. I hope you can stop by.
In other news, I am pleased to announce that the Library of Congress has acquired two of my unique artist books, Pink and Blue, as well as a copy of the digitally printed edition of The Presence of their Absence for its artist book collection.
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I am currently available for group workshops, lectures and studio visits. If you would like a copy of my PDF catalog of available works, just drop me a note.
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24. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, now online at maccaroneshop.net
Please visit
maccaroneshop.net
thank you.
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25. Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, FF Alumns, in the New York Times, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/arts/design/hans-haacke-new-museum.html
thank you.
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26. Lawrence Graham-Brown, FF Alumn, at The Center, Manhattan, Oct. 19
Lawrence Graham-Brown performs at the New Masculinities festival Oct., 19, 2019 at the Center Manhattan NY.
Lawrence will begin a new series taking pointers from the Jamaican Plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood’s diary from the 18th century, on slave crime and punishment:
“Flogged him and Quacoo well, and then washed and rubbed in salt pickle, lime juice & bird pepper; also whipped Hector for losing his hoe, made new Negro Joe piss in his eyes & mouth &c. On the 4 th, Derby was again caught, this time by the watchman as he attempted to take corn out of Col Barclay’s Long Pond cornpiec
“pUmPiNg IrOn PuMpInG FisTs!”
Lawrence Graham-Brown’s ritualistic Performance Art/ Experimental piece at the New Masculinities Festival! This variable media production will be wading into continued paradigmatic, quarrelling, discourses about the unapologetic, rebellious, LGBTIQP, black body and reframing the twenty-first century from within the framework of the visible/invisible, suspiciousness from the white gaze that imposes authority into the enlightenment movement via the Ras-Pan-Afro-Homo-Sapien construct. Check it out at the Fest on Saturday, October 19th! https://www.facebook.com/events/391009218266417/
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27. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Governors Island, Oct. 19
Dear Friends,
Come see my new work during the LMCC’s (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s) Open Studios!
The next iteration of Blued Trees will be done as part of my participation in the LMCC’s Arts Center Residency at Governors Island, this upcoming year. On Saturday, October 19th starting at 2:00 PM, every hour on the hour for 15 minutes, I will continue the conversation begun September 26th about “Environment, Urgency and Art.” Copies of my new books will also be available for sale at that time.
At the Open Studios you can learn about the LMCC’s Artist Residency programs or connect with this year’s cohort exploring social justice/social practice, NYC Harbor/ Governors Island history and climate change. I look forward to an amazing day and an important moment for art activism in NYC!
In the meantime, you can find these recent Gulf to Gulf webcast conversations on Vimeo,
“An Iterated World” and “What are our Options?”
I am also pleased to announce participation in the Croatian event EMERALD, BLUE, SILVER AND GOLD by Progressive Power Art with several short films:
Blue Sea Lavender
Garden Walk
Earth Time
Open Studios with Artists-in-Residence at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, Saturday, October 19, 2019 from 12 PM to 5 PM
LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island (map)
110 Andes Rd
New York, NY 10004
This event is free RSVP here.
While this is an open event, space is limited and there may be a wait to enter the studios so please plan accordingly!
Ferries run regularly from Lower Manhattan to LMCC’s Arts Center (1-minute walk from ferry) see ferry schedule here.
Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the project through NYFA (the New York Foundation for the Arts)!
Blued Trees is a division of Gulf to Gulf, a project fiscally sponsored by NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), a 501(c)3, tax exempt organization founded in 1971 to work with the arts community throughout New York State to develop and facilitate programs in all disciplines. NYFA will receive grants on behalf of the project and ensure the use of grant funds in accordance with the grant agreements as well as provide program or financial reports as required. Any donations made to the project through NYFA are tax deductible!
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28. Edward Madrid Gómez, Jon Hendricks, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, in Hyperallergic, now online
Dear art lovers and media colleagues:
My article about the multimedia artist Yoko Ono’s new exhibition, Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future, at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, has just been published in HYPERALLERGIC.
It features images shot by the New York-based photographer Bill Westmoreland, who is best known for his portraits of musicians, actors, and other performers.
This exhibition will run through October 27, 2019.
Organized by the Everson Museum’s staff curator, D.J. Hellerman, along with Jon Hendricks, Ono’s longtime exhibitions director and a specialist in the history of Fluxus, Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future offers a mini-retrospective look at Ono’s ideas and creations. This exhibition poses the question: Could it be that some of the themes of Ono’s work, from a career that has spanned more than six decades, feel more relevant, resonant, and urgent than ever?
In part, Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future points back to This is Not Here, Ono’s first-ever museum exhibition, which the Everson presented in 1971. John Lennon was billed as that exhibition’s “guest artist”; that show anticipated Ono and Lennon’s eventual move to the United States and their broadening collaborative activity in both art and music.
Back in the early 1970s, Ono’s art was regarded – or, more precisely, portrayed – as incomprehensible and provocative. Nevertheless, Jim Harithas, the Everson’s director at the time, seized upon everything unconventional about its idealistic, participatory, ephemeral nature. Thus, for Ono, this current return to the Everson Museum is something of a homecoming. This new exhibition is the last in a series of presentations celebrating the 50th anniversary of the museum’s iconic, modernist building, which was designed by the architect I.M. Pei.
On view are Ono’s earlier, definitive works, such as “Painting to Hammer a Nail” and “9 Concert Pieces for John Cage,” as well as more recent mixed-media installations, such as “Arising” and “Add Color (Refugee Boat),” which blend the artist’s signature conceptual and participatory elements, and references to natural forces and phenomena, with a deep sense of humanism linked to some of the most urgent issues of our time — the abuse of women, the global refugee crisis, the destructive impact of endless wars, and the human family’s enduring ability to build communities, nurture its aspirations, and survive.
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29. Beth B., Lydia Lunch, FF Alumns, at IFP Center, Manhattan, Nov. 9
LYDIA LUNCH – The War Is Never Over
A film by Beth B
WORLD PREMIERE at DOC NYC
Saturday, November 9th – 7:05 pm
IFP Center, Theater 1, 323 6th Avenue @ 3rd Street, NYC
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LYDIA LUNCH – The War Is Never Over by Beth B is the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70’s, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performance devoted to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to say “fuck you!” as loud as any man. In this time of endless attacks on women this is a rallying cry to acknowledge the only thing that is going to bring us together – ART…as the universal salve to all of our traumas.
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